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60 Top Democracy Activists Arrested

BURMA — At least 60 senior members of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy have been arrested, and the number is expected to grow, a top official of the movement said Thursday.

Speaking by phone to a correspondent in Bangkok, the official said the democracy activists were mostly from the provinces and had been detained as they headed to the capital, Rangoon, to attend a party meeting scheduled for next Tuesday.

Most of those arrested, he said, are members of parliament elected in 1990 elections. The league won more than 80 percent of the seats in the May 27, 1990, voting, but the military rulers' State Law and Order Restoration Council never recognized the result and has cracked down on the party ever since.

The National League official said he was sure the number of people detained would rise over the next few days as news trickled in from the provinces.